Feb 7, 2024 | We share with you
“it burns on the tongue”
Pentecost seminar in Heiligenbruck
with dance, gesture, silence and individual accompaniment
We would like to invite you to join us in shaping the time around Pentecost.
“all speechlessness comes to an end
it burns on the tongue
I find my word”
(from: “pfingsten” by Andreas Knapp)
In Heiligenbruck, a small oasis in Schwäbischen Wald , surrounded by woods, meadows and fields, with a chapel, labyrinth, pond and garden, we would like to reflect on our own lives in dance and gesture, biblical impulses and times of silence. Preparing meals together is part of the conscious design of this week. The seminar will be led by us:
Dr. Angelika Daiker, dance and gesture, spiritual impulses
Anton Seeberger, liturgy, spiritual impulses and chef de cuisine
We are both available for personal discussions
Arrival: Saturday 18.05.2024 until 16.00 o’clock
Check-out: Saturday 25.05. 2024 after breakfast
We are both available for personal discussions
Registration and further information at mail@angelika-daiker.de or www.angelika-daiker.de
Dec 4, 2023 | We share with you
“I want to become still and dare to dream
… and feel unimagined possibilities deep within me …
… … I want to become still and learn to say yes: to my visions, yes to my limits, yes to my path.
… … I want to become still, to encourage life: to perceive the delicate, to protect the tender, to let the small grow.”
A few words from a poem by Max F. that rang in our ears at the beginning of the Advent workshop: “Silence sings – the night becomes pure”.
We experienced these words in our souls as we created the spiral labyrinth and with the light in our hands walked into it.
The music and the light-dances opened our hearts and gave space for silence and longing, joy and gratitude, for a spark of divine light.
Advent has begun.
Adventskurs 2023, Oda Dahmen
Oct 3, 2023 | Uncategorized, We share with you
We would like to invite you to a dance and culture trip to Luxor in Egypt.
Every day dancing, yoga, pool, combined with a wonderful cultural programme, with walks in the beautiful nature of the Nile Valley and with the music-loving, fun-loving people there. We stay on the cosy West Bank opposite the dazzling city of Luxor in a small family hotel with which we have been close friends for 30 years and which looks after us with loving care.
The cost of 1350.- € in a double room includes accommodation with half board and the complete programme including meals, entrance fees, transfers on the excursions, plus 250.- € for dancing, plus a flight to Hurghada or Luxor, which will be organised for you by the Bavarian Pilgrims’ Office. (Single room supplement 200.-€)
The trip will be led by Verena Baldinger and Choon-Sil Christian, both trained in meditation of dance by Friedel and Nanni Kloke Eibl.
If you are interested phone us. Verena +49 173 37 30306 Choon Sil +49 175 56 84078
Sep 18, 2023 | We share with you
6 months after the Annual General Meeting and the workshop “Departure into the Uncertain” in Meißen, the professional association Meditation of Dance – Sacred Dance invited to a second open workshop in Bad Herrenalb, this time led by Friedel and Saskia.
The centre designed by Heidi – a richly colourful bouquet of different zinnias, “each blossom a dance” – visually expressed what the invitation in the flyer had formulated: Let us experience our connectedness in dance together this weekend. What connects us all, what we all find home in, something that allows us to build bridges to ourselves and others – the meditation of dance.
At the beginning, Friedel reflected on the term “being connected” and opened up the complex dimension of this basic theme of human life with her thoughts. The selection of dances and the accompanying texts coherently unfolded and illuminated essential aspects: I-Thou-We, Encounter, Friendship, Connecting, Letting Go.
A text by Hermann Hesse is quoted here as an example:
It is not our task to get closer to each other.
Our goal is not to merge into each other,
but to recognise each other
and to learn in each other to see
and to learn to honour
what he is:
the other’s counterpart and complement.
Choreographies such as Freundschaftstanz, Being together/Zweisamkeit, Zwiegespräch, Inanna, Neumond, Alles ist eins allowed the challenges of “being connected” to be experienced directly in a sensual way: In steps, gestures and spatial paths, it was a matter of reassuring oneself and of finding one’s way from the I to the Thou in the togetherness.
The Sunday morning attunement brought together the diversity of what had been danced and heard: After the Sonnentanz, méditation en croix, Verbindungstanz-Onthechtingsdans, Wege zu Dir-Wege zu mir and Zuversicht, we embraced each other in a tight circle around the centre and swayed together to the music of Nasihat (Kradagan).
The 23 participants, who travelled from the north to the south of Germany, from Switzerland, the French Jura and Latvia, felt richly blessed by Friedel’s and Saskia’s work. Depth and fullness were the characteristics of this wonderfully successful seminar, leaving much to reflect on and resonate with, inspiring and urging to share.
Uli (Ulrike Meister-Lucht)
Jun 18, 2023 | We share with you
Now is the time – under this motto, the German Protestant Church Congress took place in Nuremberg from 7-11 June.
Almost at the same time, it was time for us dancers to occupy ourselves with dances by Saskia Kloke and pictures by Marc Chagall as part of a further training course for teachers on the theme “Song of Songs”.
Saskia was inspired by the music of the group Fortuna and choreographed wonderful dances that took up the images and moods of the texts from the “Song of Songs”. The movements, forms and dance images invited us to experience them intensely.
We were all learners during these days, not just practitioners, and it was a joy to experience how little by little the sequences, movements and forms became clearer, more recognisable and more beautiful.
We experienced the time particularly intensively on two afternoons, when we worked in small groups on the pictures of the Song of Songs by Marc Chagall, discovered many details and the big picture and had an intensive exchange about them.
Summer temperatures contributed to the fact that the designed centre was constantly changing and always offered a new eye-catcher.
Very happy and fulfilled we started our way home and now carry the love into our everyday life to pass on something of the given abundance and beauty to the people around us.
Birgit Krauß
Impressionen
Apr 21, 2023 | We share with you
In mid-February, on two consecutive days, the Kalna skola
a dance meditation training takes place. The course was led by Sister Diana OP and Assistant Professor of the Department of Dance Education Guna Ezermale. In addition to participants from Catholic and Lutheran Madona parishes.
participated in the courses a Japanese girl who is currently studying in Ventspils and in her free time she studies Latvian folk dances because she wants to participate in the song and dance festival.
Impressions from some of the participants:
Marite:
It was very nice to meet after a long break, enjoy the dance and the shared experience. Also to hear the testimonies of the challenges in prayer and dance. This time, one movement in particular appealed to me in ” Dance of Silence.” Now I realized that the third position is like Jesus’ nailed feet on the cross, that I too must lean on my pain to breathe and change.
Sophie:
The dance meditation reached me in a roundabout way. First, it was about me getting into meditation. I got involved because all the circumstances fit together very well,
At that time, I set the goal of getting in touch with my body. Now I long for the special mood and atmosphere Sister Diana is able to create when we dance and pray. Sometimes it seems that the dance is too difficult, but then the music comes, we join hands and the dance happens.
Danute:
Sometimes it happens – the music starts and I think that I can’t remember anything, that I can only spin in circles, but – what a miracle!
When other dancers join in, we get a rhythmic movement and even a dance pattern! This shows the strength of the community, the harmony, the unspoken but existing support.
Sandra:
For me, meditation of dance means allowing God’s presence and not worrying about mistakes. Being able to walk through the awareness of my weakness and allow the group to help me. It is a great gift in dance to realize that you are accepted. Dance meditation is like a prayerful, straight path through the heart to God, bypassing the mind that tries to control and bring into tension. A great way to learn to trust And yet it’s a very different way to draw closer to God, to be in prayer, and to free yourself from everyday problems. I feel transported to another world, a little closer to the kingdom of heaven!
(from magazine “Kapt kalna” March 2023, Inese Elsina, translated by Sr.Diana)
